Sentence examples for commenced driven from inspiring English sources

And then, slowly but surely, a period of textual radio silence commenced, driven by the adoption of the telephone.

Sexual censorship found its flowering, its glorious patronage, in the person of Queen Victoria and her vassals, who commenced the drive for the purification of literature.

In the west 20th Panzer Division commenced its drive on Bautzen, while in the east 17th Infantry Division advanced on Niesky and Weißenberg, freeing a number of trapped German troops on its way.

During the first months of the war, airmen and anti-aircraft soldiers saw only sporadic combat; it was on 10 May 1940, when Germany commenced the drive into the west, that the Swiss army as a whole was mobilized a second time.

Mr. Obama, an avid BlackBerry user, commenced an aggressive drive for campaign donations over the Internet.

Leading Democrats have commenced a furious drive to galvanize and expand the network of wealthy liberal donors that has been largely dormant since 2004, hoping to recruit them to Democratic-leaning "super PACs" that President Obama now believes will be critical to winning re-election in November.

The United Progressive Alliance President Sonia Gandhi has commenced an austerity drive amongst her cohort of politicians.

During the baseline drive, participants commenced driving on the on-ramp, turning on the CC when they had entered the highway, and then drove for 45 min.

Construction has commenced on the world's first shield driven double track subway tunnel of rectangular shape for the Kyoto Municipal Subway.

Implementation of IC measures was driven by hospital protocols and commenced prior to receiving the typing result.

This will prompt Disk Utility to commence reformatting your drive.